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IR & Unions
Workchoices, Anti Discrimination Act, etc

Bullet6Business rushes to lock in pay deals
Andrew West Industrial Relations Reporter
SMH, November 22, 2007

WITH two days until an election that opinion polls say will result in a change of government, some of Australia's biggest employers are scrambling to lock staff into Work Choices-era deals by offering pay rises of up to $14,000.
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Bullet6City of Sydney Employees get alternative to the government's WorkChoices spin
In a bid to allow employees the opportunity to independently assess the Howard government’s WorkChoices ‘fact sheet’ Greens Cr Chris Harris successfully convinced the City of Sydney Council to offer all employees the United Services Union alternative ‘fact sheet.     Bullet4Read more...
Bullet6CITY OF SYDNEY COUNCIL ALTERNATIVE TO GOVERNMENT IR PROPAGANDA
GREENS COUNCILLOR CHRIS HARRIS

Deputy Lord Mayor, City of Sydney

In a notice of motion put before the City of Sydney Council, Greens Deputy Lord Mayor Cr. Chris Harris has proposed that while the council is legally obliged to provide existing employees with a ‘Workplace Relations Fact Sheet’ it should also provide staff with an alternative non-political fact sheet.
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Bullet6John Howard reveals this election's high stakes
Last night, at a speech to big business, Mr Howard let the cat out of the bag.

Speaking about WorkChoices he said:

"If the Government is returned, then I confidently predict that the reforms that have been made over the last few years will never be dismantled.

Because by the time of the next and subsequent elections, they will have become so much part of the economic and industrial fabric of this country, that will be quite impossible."
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Hassan Jum’a Awwad
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Bullet6Iraqi Oil Union's Open Letter To Congress and the European Parliment
The funding bill recently passed by the US Congress included the requirement that the Iraqi Parliament privatise much of the nations oil fields. Here is the open letter from Iraqi trade unions protesting this theft.     Bullet4Read more...
Dean Mighell was forced to resign from the Labor Party this week.
Dean Mighell was forced to resign from the Labor Party this week.
Bullet6Brown slams ALP over Mighell dumping
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has attacked the federal Labor Party for dumping Victorian Electrical Trades Union (ETU) official Dean Mighell.

Mr Mighell, a one-time Greens member, was expelled by Labor this week after the release of a recording in which he boasted about tricking businesses into giving millions of dollars worth of unnecessary pay rises.
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Bullet6WorkChoices is electoral poison: new study
Date: Monday, 26 March 2007
Mark Bahnisch writes:

Both the Prime Minister and Joe Hockey have rushed to deny that the NSW election result had anything to do with WorkChoices. Hockey has apparently attributed the Liberals’ poor performance to the power of negative advertising, begging the question of why advertising targeting WorkChoices would work at all, if there weren’t highly negative community perceptions of it to start with.
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Councillor Chris Harris


At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party “independents” and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]

I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the City’s tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]

Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction.  The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]

The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the city’s western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd. One key component of the [...]

At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the City’s laneways. The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]